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enSPIP - www.spip.netTPP opponent skewers Mexico's labor standardshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?tpp-opponent-skewers-mexico-s
http://www.bilaterals.org/?tpp-opponent-skewers-mexico-s2015-07-14 09:05:19text/htmlen
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TPPlabour | workers' rightsMexicoNAFTA
14-Jul-2015
<p>The top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee called on the Obama administration on Friday to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership accord as an engine for improving Mexico's labor regime, which he said has been in persistent decline since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement.</p>
Obama seeks to fast track TTIPhttp://www.bilaterals.org/?obama-seeks-to-fast-track-ttip
http://www.bilaterals.org/?obama-seeks-to-fast-track-ttip2015-07-07 09:12:25text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightsTTIPTPPEUCanadaMexico
07-Jul-2015
<p>Unions such as Unite and the United Steelworkers in the US and Canada have warned that their hard fought for and cherished social, employment rights and sectoral collective bargaining system may be undermined by new trade deals.</p>
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade proposal threatens SEIU membershttp://www.bilaterals.org/?trans-pacific-partnership-trade-27727
http://www.bilaterals.org/?trans-pacific-partnership-trade-277272015-06-17 08:58:07text/htmlen
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textiles | garmentslabour | workers' rightsTPPUSservicesactions | resistance
17-Jun-2015
<p>The reality is that TPP would expand the power of multinational corporations while limiting the ability of the US government to protect workers, communities and the environment.</p>
TUC's Owen Tudor: 'We are totally opposed to TTIP'http://www.bilaterals.org/?tuc-s-owen-tudor-we-are-totally
http://www.bilaterals.org/?tuc-s-owen-tudor-we-are-totally2015-04-24 08:53:20text/htmlen
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investor-state disputes | ISDSlabour | workers' rightsTTIPUKservicesCanadaEU
24-Apr-2015
<p>Shrouded with secrecy and posing a threat to public services, Owen Tudor tells EurActiv why the UK Trade Union Congress doesn't believe the hype over TTIP, and why exploitation, rather than immigration, should be the cause of people's concerns.</p>
We don't need the TTIP!http://www.bilaterals.org/?we-don-t-need-the-ttip
http://www.bilaterals.org/?we-don-t-need-the-ttip2015-02-09 00:00:00text/htmlen
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actions | resistanceTTIPlabour | workers' rightsBelgium
09-Feb-2015
<p>The heads of the two main Francophone Belgian unions express their clear reservation on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.</p>
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and labourhttp://www.bilaterals.org/?the-transatlantic-trade-and-26604
http://www.bilaterals.org/?the-transatlantic-trade-and-266042014-12-30 14:49:35text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightsTTIP
30-Dec-2014
<p>Negotiations on the labour provisions in TTIP will start in 2015. This briefing for the European Parliament highlights some of the issues.</p>
Demand for cross-border movement of professional manpower increasing in FTA talkshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?demand-for-cross-border-movement
http://www.bilaterals.org/?demand-for-cross-border-movement2014-08-13 05:26:45text/htmlen
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ChinaKorealabour | workers' rights
13-Aug-2014
<p>The Korean government is planning to carry out a study on the import of professional manpower such as consultants, engineers and lawyers and its impact on the domestic job market, as the issue is emerging in FTA negotiations across the world,</p>
Why workers should unite against Canada's next-generation trade dealshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?why-workers-should-unite-against
http://www.bilaterals.org/?why-workers-should-unite-against2014-07-03 04:06:33text/htmlen
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actions | resistancelabour | workers' rightsCanada
03-Jul-2014
<p>With Canada's labour movement searching for alternative economic models for a post-crisis, climatically unstable world, the government's new trade and investment pacts are barriers to a better future and must be resisted.</p>
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the rights of Mexican workershttp://www.bilaterals.org/?the-north-american-free-trade-25117
http://www.bilaterals.org/?the-north-american-free-trade-251172014-05-12 01:21:55text/htmlen
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NAFTAlabour | workers' rights
12-May-2014
<p>The deep integration of the continent makes a continental labour response necessary and possible. However, the prospects of such a response depend on the political evolution in the Mexican working-class on both sides of the border, the political evolution of unions in North America, and more general developments in the politics and economy of each country.</p>
Colombia: Where dockers sell their paycheques for loanshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?colombia-where-dockers-sell-their
http://www.bilaterals.org/?colombia-where-dockers-sell-their2014-04-24 22:30:00text/htmlen
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USColombialabour | workers' rights
24-Apr-2014
<p>The conditions of Buenaventura's longshore workers, and the harsh reprisals against them for trying to form unions, dramatically illustrate the failure of Colombia's Labor Action Plan.</p>
What does the TTIP really mean for workers?http://www.bilaterals.org/?what-does-the-ttip-really-mean-for
http://www.bilaterals.org/?what-does-the-ttip-really-mean-for2014-03-11 07:20:30text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightsTTIP
11-Mar-2014
<p>As public awareness increases about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an EU-US trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, so too do concerns about its potential impact.</p>
Give foreign nurses in Japan a boost by treating accord as long-term remedy for labor shortageshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?give-foreign-nurses-in-japan-a
http://www.bilaterals.org/?give-foreign-nurses-in-japan-a2014-02-03 05:25:25text/htmlen
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03-Feb-2014
<p>Japanese authorities are reluctant to admit the need for foreign labor and consider EPA candidates as part of a serious measure to overcome the shortfall, preferring instead to see them as part of an exchange program where their eventual return are replaced by new batches.</p>
Inclusion of labour norms on the rise in FTAs: ILO studyhttp://www.bilaterals.org/?inclusion-of-labour-norms-on-the
http://www.bilaterals.org/?inclusion-of-labour-norms-on-the2013-11-08 23:46:58text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rights
08-Nov-2013
<p>As the world moves into a regime where free trade agreements (FTAs) govern 5.5 per cent of global trade compared with 0.6 per cent in 1995, a new ILO report finds a marked rise in inclusion of labour provisions in bilateral and regional pacts.</p>
Honduras: US-Korean maquila accused of CAFTA labor violationshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?honduras-us-korean-maquila-accused
http://www.bilaterals.org/?honduras-us-korean-maquila-accused2013-08-23 01:16:02text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightsHondurasUSCAFTA
23-Aug-2013
<p>Some 30 inspectors from the Honduran Labor Ministry visited the Kyungshin-Lear Honduras Electrical Distribution Systems auto parts assembly plant iafter local media reported that some employees had to wear diapers at work because of restrictions on their bathroom breaks.</p>
How the Obama Administration is hurting American workershttp://www.bilaterals.org/?how-the-obama-administration-is
http://www.bilaterals.org/?how-the-obama-administration-is2013-08-14 15:00:00text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightsUS
14-Aug-2013
<p>Leading US companies, the ones that shape government policy, are now able to make healthy profits without spending on domestic investment, leading to policies like FTAs that do not improve living and working conditions in the US</p>
Union organizations from Africa, America, Asia and Europe meet in Parishttp://www.bilaterals.org/?union-organizations-from-africa
http://www.bilaterals.org/?union-organizations-from-africa2013-03-22 23:23:00text/htmlen
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actions | resistance
22-Mar-2013
<p>The Confederación General del Trabajo (Spain), the Union Syndicale Solidaires (France) and the Central Sindical e Popular Conlutas (Brazil) have extended an international invitation to all organizations that consider themselves part of the combative trade union movement and see the need for social transformation to an international trade union meeting to be held in Paris from 22 to 24 March in order to work towards the coordination of alternative trade-unionism on an international level</p>
“Free trade agreements are, to some extent, an expression of neo-colonialism” http://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-agreements-are-to-some
http://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-agreements-are-to-some2012-07-03 23:22:00text/htmlen
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labour | workers' rightssovereignty | democracy
03-Jul-2012
<p>Interview with Lourdes Castro, chief officer of Grupo SUR and representative of Alop, Aprodev, Cifca and Oidhaco.</p>
Labor action and inaction in Colombia free trade dealhttp://www.bilaterals.org/?labor-action-and-inaction-in
http://www.bilaterals.org/?labor-action-and-inaction-in2012-04-25 15:39:56text/htmlen
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USColombialabour | workers' rights
25-Apr-2012
<p>As the media swarmed over the scandal surrounding the Secret Service's alleged carousing with prostitutes in Colombia, another questionable financial transaction slipped quietly through the backdoor of hemispheric diplomacy.</p>
AFL-CIO Joins Honduran Unions in Petitioning US Labor Departmenthttp://www.bilaterals.org/?afl-cio-joins-honduran-unions-in
http://www.bilaterals.org/?afl-cio-joins-honduran-unions-in2012-04-01 22:29:06text/htmlen
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USCAFTAHonduraslabour | workers' rights
01-Apr-2012
<p>This week the AFL-CIO joined the main Honduran trade unions to file a petition with the United States Department of Labor's Public Office of Trade & Labor Affairs (OTLA) concerning the failure of the government of Honduras to effectively enforce its labor laws and comply with its commitments under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).</p>
'Meet the new boss': The rise of Colombia's labor co-opshttp://www.bilaterals.org/?meet-the-new-boss-the-rise-of
http://www.bilaterals.org/?meet-the-new-boss-the-rise-of2012-03-02 05:11:11text/htmlen
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USColombialabour | workers' rights
02-Mar-2012
<p>According to labor-rights activists as well as a recent US State department report, many Colombian co-ops function as glorified temp agencies providing companies with cheap and docile non-union workers.</p>